The Business Times, 14 March 2002

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    13 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA(P) 010/03/2002 Internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg/ SINGAPORE THURSDAY, MARCH 14,2002 85C
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    77 1 Dsn 1,786J7 (+2.35) BT-SRI 738.64 (-0.83) ST INDEX FUTURES 1,713 (+13.00) SDESCX FUTURES 22&80 (+3.10) STOCK MARKET INDICES Wednesday Change KLSE COMP 754.51 +0.89 NIKKEI 225 11,415.31 -***** HANG SENG —11.217 50 -56.36 SET INDEX ***** -6.13 JAKARTA COMP ..474.00 +4.63 MANILA COMP .1582.60 +6i6 TAIPEI WP1 6.088.34
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    70 1 POREZ RATES USS ss USS (S$ per l'S$) 1.824 £(l"S$/S$ per 1.41S 1576 ElIROfl SS/SS/E). 0.874 1595 DM 1236 1.226 YEN 1293 70.90 RM 3.800 1084 HKS 7.799 4-277 BAHT 43.29 23.74 RIT1AH 9.985 5.476 PRIME BATES SINGAPORE* 5io KUALA LUMPUR 640 HONG KONG ft125 JAKARTA 3900 TAIPEI 6.725
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    Lock icon Lift T+3 cap on scrip lending to boost demand: Brokers
    587 1  -  BTIJ.^IIULVJ They say need to roll over short lending periods increases risks By Angela Tan [SINGAPORE] The Singapore Exchange (SGX) can boost interest in scrip lending by easing the "T+3" restriction on the scheme, brokers and fund managers say. They
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    Lock icon MAS: Banks must change auditors every 5 years
    1085 1  -  Mandatory now for audit committee members to be non-exec directors By Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] The Monetary Authority of Singapore said yesterday local banks will have to change auditors every five years, and it is reviewing whether this measure should be extended
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    Lock icon Online payment networks open door to foreign hanks
    428 1  -  By Tang Weng Fai [SINGAPORE! Singapore's two largest payment-settlement networks have signed a preliminary agreement that will pave the way for an online direct debit network to go live by the end of this year or early next. The Network for Electronic
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    Lock icon Law joint ventures with foreign firms on the rocks
    787 1  -  BTrryaimi'/j Colin Ng's pact with White Case likely to break np Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] It looks like the end of the road for the year-old joint venture between local law firm Colin Ng Partners and the international firm of White Case.
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      95 1 DCSTOE BizlT Is the star losing out to its opening act? Kenneth James, Pg 18 Hock Lock Slew Inchcape Motors directors' advice lacks bite. Pg3 Top Stories HK bourse may up trading hours to 6. Next Page Parkway to spend $46m to take two listed units private. Pg 3 M&C
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      11 1 Indon central bank chief gets 3 years for corruption Next Page
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      Lock icon HK bourse may up trading hours to 6
      574 2  -  Plans part of efforts to boost market turnover, attract global investors From Andrey Tan in Hong Kong HONG KONG'S stock markets will likely extend their trading hours to six hours a day, from the current four, in plans to be revealed by
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      Lock icon Indon central banker jailed, fined for graft
      685 2  -  Sabirin to appeal; refuses to step down as bank governor From Shoeb Kagda m Jakarta BANK Indonesia governor Sjahril Sabirin was yesterday sentenced to three years in jail and fined 15 million rupiah (552,700) for his role in the 1999 Bank Bali scandal.
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        128 2 IN case you hadn't noticed, car ads in Belgium are now required to carry tobacco-style safety warnings. Brussels passed a law recently that says all car ads worth six billion euros (559.6 billion) a year in Europe must contain a warning that the motorist is responsible
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        Lock icon Tic-Tacs to the rescue
        76 2 MANAGEMENT consultant Accenture has just spared a thought for stressed-out media people by sending some of them Tic-Tacs that looked like prescription medicine sealed in a plastic packet labelled Media Shock 4mg'. Dosage instructions on the pack include advice to take one tablet when necessary for
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      49 2 This announcement appears as a matter of record only (intra co) INTRACO LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) PROPOSED DISPOSAL OF 11,029,955 ORDINARY SHARES IN THE CAPITAL OF CWT DISTRIBUTION LIMITED Financial Adviser to the Independent Directors BIL Asia Singapore DEXIA BIL ASIA SINGAPORE LIMITED 14 March 2002
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Parkway to spend $46m to take two listed units private
      508 3  -  It will offer 66 cents for each P&rkwayLab share and 38 cents for each Medi-Rad share By Andrea Tan PARKWAY Holdings is making a major and costly about-turn. It plans to spend $46 million to take two listed subsidiaries private.
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      Lock icon Inchcape Motors directors' advice lacks bite
      609 3  -  hoc:KII.UI!.-||JI,M christopher tan STRATEGIC investor Ron Brierley was reported to have said the offer by London's Inchcape Pic to take its Singapore-based Inchcape Motors Ltd (IML) private was too low. Hardly surprisingly it would be rare for a shareholder to say an offer for
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      Lock icon HG Metal offers 17m shares at 20c each
      317 4  -  Adeline Chia HG Metal Manufacturing Ltd, a steel supplier with manufacturing capabilities, yesterday launched an initial public offering (IPO) of 17 million shares for a listing on Sesdaq. At 20 cents apiece, the shares represent 22 per cent of the company's enlarged
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      Lock icon M&C Hotels suffers 62% profit dive
      596 4  -  Europe, US sector bore brunt of downturn, but Asian, Australasian operations did well By Conrad Raj HIT by the global economic downturn and the fallout from the Sept 11 incident, Millennium Copthorne Hotels (M&C) the global hospitality arm of Singapore's Hong Leong Group saw
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      Lock icon Achieva profit drops 56% on stiff competition
      288 4  -  By Geraldine Lor KEEN competition in the telecommunications and data communications industry dragged profits down despite a jump in turnover, mainboard-listed Achieva Limited said yesterday at its FY2OOI results briefing. Achieva. a Singaporebased company focusing on electronics and IT-related products, posted a 42
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      Lock icon Caosco trebles profit to $40.6m, as expected
      267 5  -  By David Boey CHINA Aviation Oil (Singapore) Corp. or Caosco, yesterday reported a trebling in group net earnings to $40.6 million as Kim Eng Securities had forecast. Caosco, which was listed just three months ago, said the profit jump was fuelled by hefty
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      Lock icon Stats' US$150m convertible notes offer
      97 5 Reuters ST Assembly Test Services (Stats) said yesterday it will offer US$l5O million of convertible notes for general corporate purposes. The Singapore-based chip test and advanced packaging service provider said it will also offer a 15 per cent over-allotment option. "The terms of the convertible
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon Superior's profits hit by provisions
        64 5 SUPERIOR Multi-Packaging 1 s profits dived 75 per cent last year to $306,000 despite a 14 per cent rise in turnover to $62.2 million. The packaging firm blamed provisions made for its investments in the Philippines and debt writeoffs for the sharp reduction in its
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        Lock icon Nobel Design unit wooed by M'sian VC
        55 5 INTERIOR design company Nobel Design said yesterday that a Malaysia-based venture capital fund has proposed taking about 204,000 Series B convertible preference shares in Buylateral.com, a Nobel unit, at $12.25 per share. The fund, Optixlab, has the option of converting the shares into
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        Lock icon UE pays RM8.5m for M'sian firm
        109 5 Construction and real estate group United Engineers has paid about RM&S million (SKI million) for a 60 per cent stake in a Malaysian specialist geo-technical and foundation engineering firm called APG Geo-Systems Sdn Bbd. UE said the acquisition "will strengthen local support for the
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        Lock icon Federal Int'l unit invests in India
        61 5 SINGAPORE mainboard-listed Federal International (2000), a machine and tools specialist supporting the oil and gas sector, has announced that its Houston-based subsidiary, HP&T Products Inc, has set up an India-based company called GV Resources. This investment, which costs 200,000 rupees (557,500) is Federal's fourth
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      Lock icon Shareholders don't gain if staff, clients suffer
      356 5  -  RBSG chairman says foil bank should keep its corporate banking business Bu Siow Li Sen SHAREHOLDER value cannot be increased if employees and customers are unhappy, according to the chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBSG), George Mathewson. Two years after
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      Lock icon Q2 launch for SGX MSCI Japan Index Futures
      165 5 Dow Jones Newswires SINGAPORE Exchange yesterday said it has signed a 11censing agreement with Morgan Stanley Capital International to launch the SGX MSCI Japan Index Futures Contract. The new futures contract wiU start trading on the SGX in the second quarter of
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      Lock icon Excel gets $12m in suit against M'sian firm
      265 5  -  By David Boey EXCEL Machine Tools said yesterday it has been awarded some $12 million after it won a legal tussle with Malaysia-based CT Capital Ventures. The amount includes interest and legal costs of the legal proceedings. Excel said in a brief
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      296 6 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Mar 13 VALUE CLOSE WOW 353.00 -48.00 ITCRM -*****.00 +48.00 iriUgMO -*****.00 +35.00 470.65 40.72 MfpMnDm 170.58 +0.40 QjpOwFfci 1547.35 411.55 •arplnPup 475.83 +3.76 224.94 +0.15 tmSOHkmrn 226.80 43.10 IPC020C 29.938.000 GokJtron 5c 26,032,000 UntFood HK25c 23.339,000 ASTllOc 22.924,000 NOL 11,028.000 Noreta>5c 10,706,000 BIL lot) US20c 9,*****0
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      Lock icon Asti's fundamentals forgotten as rumours reign
      307 6  -  HOT STOCK/ WARRANT By Ven Sreenivasan SEMICONDUCTOR equipment maker Asti Holdings was among the most actively traded stocks yesterday, fueUed by rumours that controUing stakeholder Flextech Holdings was about to seU some or all of its stake in the company to an American buyer.
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      Lock icon Market needs earnings upgrades
      760 6  -  STOCKS r. sivanithy WHAT can move the local market to its next recovery stage? An interest rate cut? That's unlikely, given rates are already at rock bottom. Liquidity? Probably not, because turnover seems to be sliding each day. So by all accounts it will have to
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      Lock icon US dollar more inclined to explore top side
      546 6  -  ■MUmmhUAHUJU CURRENCIES Good demand reported below SSLB2 larry wee PENSION fund worries and a Nikkei retreat favoured the US dollar against Asian units yesterday, lifting it back above 129 yen and 551.82 with the latter aided by reports of fairly robust buying
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    2698 6 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS OtiJatMn 08» OtiBond S'pore A/t 120^ CibBond S'pore B/t 1227/ AM Arnro Amt Mgt (S'pore) Oti Money Sing Dollar Clan 8 1 038V Star Europe Eqty!* 0.795/ Citl F>arv€tjrope Equity Find 10* Star Europe Bd 09* CitiSetett Asia Tilt Balanced 1.3/ Star Europe Bal 0868/ CibSatect Asa
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Spencer Stuart S'pore's turnover up 57% last year
      707 7  -  Exec search firm's local office outperforms group's global showing Reports by Anna Teo FOR executive search firm Spencer Stuart's Singapore office, 2001 the year to September, at least was a sterling year. While the firm's worldwide revenue was down 19 per cent,
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      Lock icon Esprit denies plans to close down
      326 7 E-mail from US staff raises concern in S'pore AN e-mail started by an Esprit staff in the US has raised concerns here that the fashion retail chain is closing shop in Singapore. But a spokeswoman from Esprit Holdings based in Hong Kong told BT
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      Lock icon Happiness in the midst of gloom
      327 7  -  -By Simone Erasmus A REGIONAL recession, followed by a startling turnaround and a downturn more devastating than the last these experiences, it seems, have led to the maturing of the Singapore worker. And according to a recent survey 0f3,000 people conducted by global recruitment
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      Lock icon Focus now back to basics
      609 7 THE 10-year market boom got Spencer Stuart and other executive search firms "out of shape", says its CEO, David Daniel. Then "distractions" like the Internet, surging capital markets and global expansion beckoned in recent years. But the downturn has now got Spencer Stuart back on
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      Lock icon Pahang invites SilkAir to fly S'pore-Kuantan
      234 9  -  It also urges S'pore to explore tourism investment opportunities there From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur THE Malaysian state of Pahang has asked Silk Air, the regional aviation arm of Singapore Airlines, to fly to Kuan tan to help boost bilateral tourism. A Pahang
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      Lock icon Who says fund transfer is faster through Internet?
      107 9  -  Denis Distant Singapore A NEW facility offered by some banks in Singapore is supposed to eliminate the hassle of transferring funds between accounts with different banks and uses the Giro system. Instructions to effect transfers can be sent by the Internet but
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      Lock icon Bonus rates hit by low fixed-income returns
      253 9  -  MAI LI .Tin Tan Beng Lee President Life Insurance Association Singapore WE refer to the letter "Insurance bonus cuts not fair" (Mailbag, March 6) by Lau Kok Keong. Insurers annually declare bonuses for participating (that is, with profits) policies. These bonuses are not
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      Lock icon Concern for fixed depositors
      137 9  -  John Yong Singapore The recent landmark ruling by the Court of Appeal reported by Catherine Ong ("Bank wins ringgit case in landmark banking ruling", March 8) has created grave concerns among banks' customers whose fixed deposits are at risk if there is a repeat of a
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      210 7 The Rise and Rise of China 100% Capital and 3% Minimum Ratum Protection China is fast becoming an economic powerhouse. Her recent entry into the These features protect you from any downside while letting you enjoy China's World Trade Organisation will further accelerate the opening of her huge exciting investment
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon Taipei, Beijing moving closer cautiously
      760 8  -  ■TTTTTTTrtra OPINION frank ching The writer is a Hong Kong-based journalist and commentator WHEN Chen Shui-bian of the proindependence Democratic Progressive Party was elected president of Taiwan two years ago, there was widespread concern that he would provoke China into taking military action against Taiwan.
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      62 8 'Some people question how an electronics maker can really go into nursing care. But we say it's precisely because we're an electronics company that we can do a good job.' Kmd-icU Ox&wa of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co, on its 103-room Sincere Kourien home for old people, which
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      Lock icon Retaliation on steel won't help
      606 8 EDITORIAL THE import tariffs on steel recently imposed by the United States have, predictably and appropriately, met with strong protests from around the world The affected countries must, as is their right, take up the matter with the World Trade Organization (WTO). However, retaliatory trade
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      Lock icon Don't rule out a double dip in the US economy
      1527 8  -  A relapse in the spring is likely because the fignres show that pent-up consumer demand fuelling a sustainable recovery has already been expended By Stephen Roach The writer is chief economist at investment bank Morgan Stanley in New York WHAT
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      142 9 I to tell Gordon it's not a black. and white affair! ■BBsmAad Robertson Walk, it's not just about cuTSDMu, the weekends. Its about a place where every Friday you can sit back and relax iHHfI the COOI SOUndS of chill-out music. A nn(nmßt.rraioiwnLaiMi p>oce to share good times and unwind.
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  • EXECUTIVE suite
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      Lock icon More development sites to go on sale
      379 10  -  Banks are cleaning up their loan books, reports ukdkba tax ANDREA TAN SMALLER developers and contractors will have more sites to choose from as banks clean up their loan books, forcing properties onto the block. Last week, three sites at Lorong 15 Geylang,
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      Lock icon Pasadena to be launched at $720 psf
      208 10 FREEHOLD Pasadena will be launched this Saturday at an average price of $720 psf, a figure sole marketing agent Knight Frank believes is competitive for new homes in the vicinity. Deferred payment will also be offered. Developed by a family which has owned
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      Lock icon JTC looking into industrial REITs
      471 10  -  By Vince Chong SINGAPORE'S largest industrial landlord, JTC Corporation, is "talking to various parties to get a better understanding of industrial REITs". Sources told BT that both JTC and listed CapitaLand may set up industrial real estate investment trusts (REITs) in the future, reckoning that
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      584 10 DEVELOPER/OWNER DISTRICT LOCATION SIZE TOTAL UNTTS NO. OF PRICE TENURE launched unttssold (5p«f) Queww AHgreen Properties 3 Cwealth Ave/Stirting Rd 914-2,723 722 888 548 99-yr Bfcae Horizon FEO 5 West Coast Crescent 904-1,227 503 280 550 99-yr 38 Drayeott Drive Sing Realty (S) 10 Drayeott Drive
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon Mild rebound for developed world, says World Bank
      517 11  -  Developing nations will fare better, and grow even faster next year From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo THE widely predicted upturn in global economic activity this year will bring only modest recovery in the world's leading economies, but output in developing countries will
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      Lock icon Thai public debt to hit over 67% of GDP by 2005: report
      389 11  -  From Harish Mehta in Bangkok THAILAND'S ballooning public debt is expected to hit a high of more than 67 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2005, due to government borrowings, mounting losses at a Bank of
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        Lock icon Indon graft suspect returns funds
        39 11 AFP [JAKARTA] Winfried Simatupang, a suspect in a financial scandal involving Indonesia's Parliament speaker Akbar Tanjung, has returned the entire 40 billion rupiah (Ss7 million) in allegedly embezzled state funds, an official said yesterday.—AFP
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        Lock icon Shanghai to study short selling
        36 11 Reuters [SHANGHAI] The Shanghai stock exchange has listed short selling, now banned in China, among new financial products it will work on this year, the China Securities Journal said yesterday. Reuters
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        Lock icon Manila brokers hold protest rally
        45 11 AFX [MANILA] Philippine Stock Exchange brokers held a protest rally seeking the resignation of the bourse's re-elected president Ernest Leung. Representatives of the 60 to 70 brokerages housed in the Tektite trading floor in Ortigas participated in the rally. —AFX
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        Lock icon Indon growth may rise to 3.8%
        69 11 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] Indonesia's economic growth may accelerate this year unless it's derailed by political conflicts, the head of the government's statistics bureau told Parliament. Growth may rise to 3.8 per cent this year from last year's 3.3 per cent, Sudarti Surbakti said. That's close
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        Lock icon Manila freezes 6 bank accounts
        37 11 Bloomberg [MANILA] The Philippines froze six bank accounts containing more than 30 million pesos (Ssl million), which the government suspects are funds generated from illegal activities, central bank governor Rafael Buenaventura said.—Bloomberg
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        Lock icon ABN Amro sells M'sian mortgages
        70 11 Bloomberg [AMSTERDAM] ABN Amro Holding NV sold its consumer mortgage business in Malaysia to HSBC Holdings Pic, Europe's No 1 bank by market value, as the largest Dutch bank exits businesses in countries where it's too small to compete. Terms of the transaction weren't disclosed.
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      Lock icon Pernas went in talks to sell stake
      137 11 KUALA LUMPUR Dow Jones Newswires MALAYSIA'S Pernas International Holdings Bhd yesterday confirmed its single largest shareholder, Perbadanan Nasional Bhd, is in preliminary talks to sell its entire stake in Pernas. Government-owned Perbadanan Nasional is in talks with privately held Restu Jernih Sdn Bhd,
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      Lock icon BCA bid winner chosen, to be named later
      439 11 JAKARTA Reuters INDONESIA said yesterday it had chosen the winning bid for a majority stake in the country's largest retail bank, and would make the announcement within days after a sale process hit by delays and sporadic protests. The sale of Bank
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      Lock icon TRI, DiGi to bid jointly for 3G licence in M'sia
      339 11  -  From] Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIAN telcos Technology Resources Industries Bhd (TRI) and DiGi.com Bhd moved one step ahead in the race for broadspectrum licences (3G) yesterday as they announced plans to submit a joint bid when applications
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      Lock icon Top chip makers set to ease spending curbs
      522 12 TAIPEI Firm demand forces TSMC, UMC to take a relook at capital expenditure cuts Reuters THE world's top two contract microchip makers, or foundries, said yesterday firm demand may prompt them to speed up or boost plans for capital expenditure this year
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      Lock icon China's 'no-go' areas for foreign investment
      330 12 BEIJING List includes construction, futures firms, broadcast, GM seeds, power and aviation Reuters CHINA has announced a list of areas barred to foreign investment as it keeps a tight grip on some sectors despite vast market opening after entering the World Trade Organization in
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      Lock icon Resurgent Big Blue faces Compuware anti-trust suit
      489 14 NEW YORK IBM accused of tying software tools to its mainframe software NYT BACK in the ancient past of computing, the 1950s through the *****, when the dreaded monopolist of the industry resided in suburban New York instead of suburban Seattle, IBM was
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      409 15 NEW YORK Talks opened with EPMG, Ernst Young as deal with Deloitte falters NYT AMID signs that a possible merger deal with Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu was faltering, Andersen has intensified discussions with two other accounting competitors in hopes of striking a deal by the
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      298 15 WASHINGTON NYT THE House Energy and Commerce Committee began an investigation on Tuesday into accounting practices and executives' sales of company stock at Global Crossing, the telecommunications company that has filed for bankruptcy protection. Global Crossing faces accusations that it used sham transactions
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      463 15 LATEST US INDICATORS Feb gain of 0.3% suggests consumers took a breather Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] US retail sales rose less than expected in February, suggesting consumers took a breather after spending in the fourth quarter at the fastest pace in 3 1/2 years. A
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      266 15 AFX [WASHINGTON] Economics Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz said the fundamentals of the US economy remain strong, but there are a number of "negative forces" which suggest the economy will continue to operate below potential, going forward. Prof Stiglitz, who was awarded the Nobel prize
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      434 15 FORTALEZA, Brazil Bloomberg Reuters ARGENTINA plans to start closing the weakest of the nation's 87 banks as early as next month and merge others as the government prepares to lift restrictions on withdrawals and money transfers. The move coincided with a call by President
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      629 17 For the first time, telcos have bigger presence than software firms at this year's fair AP [HANOVER, Germany] Computer and mobile phone firms geared up for a potential economic recovery as the world's biggest technology show got under way on
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      704 17  -  It will stay ahead of 3G, in terms of the number of subscribers, until as far as 2007: researchers By Chen Huifen IT may take up to five years for high-speed 3G mobile communications to come into its own, according to
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      150 17 Dow Jones Newswires [TOKYO] Japan's ceUphone giant NTT DoCoMo said yesterday that it is considering entering the wireless local-area-network (LAN) market. Such a move is likely to bring the company into competition with other members of the NTT group such as NTT Communications Corp in
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      369 17 Strong demand expected from US consumers Bloomberg [FRAMINGHAM, Massachusetts] Worldwide shipments of personal computers will rise 3 per cent this year because of strong demand from US consumers, market researcher IDC said in a revised forecast. IDC increased its estimate from a
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      735 18  -  INFOTECH GPRS doesn't look ready to concede centre stage for quite a while yet kenneth james WITH the recent blitz of news about 3G phones, one would think that third-generation mobile communications, or 3G, is finally ready for centre stage. It
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      461 18 Reuters [HANOVER, Germany] Japanese consumer electronics maker Sharp Corp, whose photo-taking mobile phones have been a hit in Japan, said on Tuesday it hopes to repeat that success in Europe. "We are aggressively promoting our camera-at-tached models to the leading carriers in
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      279 19 Reuters THE Baltic Dry Index (BDI) rose three points to 1,059, the Baltic Panamax Index (BPI) gained 12 points at 1,087, the Baltic Handymax Index (BHD finned 29 points to 6,954 and the Baltic Capesize Index (BCD was down four points at 1,317. TIME-CHARTER: ♦Kerkis (built 1982) 208,952
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      635 19  -  Official blames 'short-sighted bureaucrats' for HK woes By\ Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] Rapid development and growth in cargo volumes at China's major container ports up over 17 per cent in 2001 over the prior year may be signalling the gradual decline of
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      53 19 [LUDINGTON, Michigan] TheLudington lighthouse and breakwallprotecting the boat launch in Ludington, Michigan, are engulfed in ice after a weekend storm with wind gusts reaching 59 miles per hour. The high winds produced large waves which pounded the area for two days covering everything from signs to benches along
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      192 19 AFP [HONG KONG] At least eight people, including six Russians, were missing after a dredger and a Singapore-registered container vessel collided off the north-east coast of Hong Kong, the marine department said. "The search and rescue operation is still going on
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      381 19  -  Asia will be next growth area for cruise industry, says liner official Aris Zapanaley By\ Seth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Luxury cruise line Silversea will use Singapore as its hub for Asia Pacific cruises in 2003, basing the currently laid-up Silver
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      183 19 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Hutchison Port Holdings, a unit of Hutchison Whampoa Ltd, denied it held talks with the Thailand Port Authority about buying an additional terminal at the country's Laem Chabang seaport. On Monday, Mana Patram, director-gen-eral of the Thailand Port Authority, said an official
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        701 20 With the peace process well on track, Sri Lanka is concentrating on improving its port facilities Bernama THE Port of Colombo, Sri Lanka, once a top port in South Asia ideally located on the 'East-West' sea route of world trade, is
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        205 27 March 21 Japan: Vernal Equinox Day March 29 Singapore: Good Friday Australia: Good Friday Canada: Good Friday France: Good Friday Germany: Good Friday Hong Kong: Good Friday Indonesia: Good Friday New Zealand: Good Friday Norway: Good Friday Philippines: Good Friday Sweden: Good Friday Switzerland: Good Friday United Kingdom:
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        824 27 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Ma rine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market Prices shown are based on averagesued stem Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the
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        324 28 Financial backing from new partner boosts confidence to take on Qantas AP [BRISBANE] Cut-price domestic airline Virgin Blue said yesterday it hopes to grab up to 50 per cent of the domestic aviation market now that it has extra financial backing
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        422 28 Carrier also reviewing Sky team and Star Alliance Reuters [ZURICH] The chairman of the new "Swiss" national airline hinted on Tuesday that the carrier would pick the One World alliance led by British Airways and American Airlines as its international partner later
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        211 28 Bloomberg [ZURICH] Crossair AG, the Swiss airline that is taking over most of Swissair Group's flights, reported a 2001 loss of 314 million Swiss francs (Ss34o million) following the rival's collapse and a drop in passenger traffic. The loss widened more than 12-fold
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        253 28 AFP [PARIS] The French aeronautics industry faces turbulence this year in light of financial problems confronting many commercial carriers, warned the head of GIFAS, an association of French aeronautic and space companies. "The year 2002 is not looking good because of the
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        158 28 Reuters [MADRIDJ Employees at Spain's Iberia have accused the airline of not having stepped up security measures six months after the Sept 11 hijacks exposed the potential dangers for airlines. Maintenance specialists, mechanics and flight attendants at Iberia, grouped as the Technical
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        408 28 EC molls mutn&l fond to cover war and terrorism risks AFX, Reuters [BRUSSELS] The proposal by the European Commission to levy a tax on foreign airlines which are able to exercise aggressive pricing because of state subsidies are designed to bring EU
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        461 28 It will pay 40m yn&n for stake in Sichuan Air Bloomberg [BEIJING] Shandong Airlines Co, one of China's most profitable regional carriers in past years, agreed to buy an 8 per cent stake in Sichuan Airlines as the country's regional operators merge to
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